Vehicle-tire.



E. w. RUSSEY & H. J. & 1. R. COYLE.

VEHICLE TIRE.

I APPLICATION FILED DEC.3I. 1915- I I 1,215,414. Patented Feb.13,1917. I

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VEHICLE TIRE.

Patented Feb. 13, 1917-.

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v 4 1 A, 5 l 2 I! h I'll Snow/"#150 65 assay To all whom it may concern:

EDWARD W. RUSSEY, OF SEYMOUR, TEXAS, AND HEN BY, J. COYLE AND JAMES R.GOYLE, OF HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA; SAID HENRY J. COYLE AND SAID JAMES R.COYLE ASSIGNORS OF ONE-SIXTH OF THE ENTIRE RIGHT TO SAID RUSSEY.

VEHICLE-TIRE.

Patented Feb. 13, 1917. Application filed December 31, 1915. Serial No.69,587.

1 215 414 Specification of- Letters Patent.

within the casing are a plurality of semiwith casing beads-11 to receiveholding'de vices, as hereafter specified. Arranged wardly at their outeredges, as represented at 24-25 to engage over the casing beads 11;

Be it known that we, EDWARD V. RUssnY, cylindrical sheet or plate metalsections of Seymour, in the county of Baylor and overlapping at theirconfronting ends and State of Texas, HENRY J. COYLE and JAMES occupyingthe entire interior of the tire. R. COYLE, residing at Huntsville, inthe One set 12 of the shim-cylindrical members county of Madison andState of Alabama, bear against the inner face of the outer porcitizensof the United States, have invented tion of the tire casing, while theother set certain new and useful Improvements in 13 of thesemi-cylindrical sections bear Vehicle-Tires, of which the following isa against the inner faces of the tire casing and specification. 4 inengagement with the casing beads 11 as This invention relates to the.tires of veillustrated in Fig. 2. hicles of the automobile class, andhas for At their confronting ends the sections 12 one of its objects toprovide a. tire having are reduced and overlap, as represented at therequisite resiliency or yieldableness with- 14, while the confrontingends of the seeout danger of injury by puncturing, and tions 13 arelikewise reduced and overlap, as wherein the relatively fragilepneumatic shown at 15, the overlapped portions fitting tubes aredispensed with. with sufficient degree of looseness to permitAnotherobject of the invention is to prothe requisite flexibility whenpressure is apvide a device of this, character in which inner plied tothe tire. metallic sectional sheathings and springs are Riveted orotherwise attached to the inner substituted for the pneumatic orinflatable faces of each of the sections '12 are cup-like tub I holdingdevices, represented at 16, while Another object of the invention is toprosimilar but smaller cup-like devices 17 are vide a device of thischaracter which may be attached at intervals to each of the innerattached to the ordinary wheel without masections 13. The cup-likedevices form seats terial structural change. for springs, represented at18, the termi- With these and other objects in view, the nals of thesprings being held by the same invention consists in certain novelfeatures rivet which holds the cups to the sections.

of construction as hereinafter shown and Preferably the cups or socketmembers 17 are .described, and then specifically pointed out smallerthan the cups or socket members 16,

in the'claims; and in the drawings illusand the springs arecorrespondingly reduced trative of the preferred embodiment of thetoward their inner ends, but the springs may .i tjo be of other shapesif preferred.

Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in' sec- Any required number ofsprings may be tion of an automobile wheel with the imemployed but forthe purpose of illustration provement applied; two are represented inFig. 1 located between Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on the line eachopposite painof the sections and rela- 3-3 of Fig. 1; tively neartheirends The springs thus op- Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a porerateto maintain the sections in separated tion of the tire illustrating theconstruction. position and thus hold the tire casing in its Fig. 4represents portions of a pair of the distended condition. Holding links19 are coacting tire casing holding members and connected at 20-21respectively to the secone, of the locking devices; tions 12.13 to limitthe outward movement Fig. 5 is an enlarged longitudinal section of thesections 12 while at the same time perof portions of a coacting pair ofthe tire mitting them to. be compressed by outside casing holdingmembers and one of the pressure when the, load is applied to the lockingdevices. wheel. By this means the links serve as The improved device isdesigned to'be apsafety appliances to relieve the springs from plied totheinterior of an ordinary pneuundue strains, as will be obvious. matictire casing, such casing being indi- The casing beads 11 are designed tobe cated conventionally at 10 and provided coupled by annularplates 22-23 rolled voutpressure when the cisely the same manner as thepneumaticthe ordinary manner felly as by shrinking At their'confrontingedges the plates 2223 are reduced and overlapped, as shown at 26.Projecting at suitable intervals from the members -2223 and relativelynear their confronting edges are lugs 2728 arranged in pairs and adaptedto receive locking plates 29 having recesses 30 in their opposite edges,the recessed portions being designed to receive the lugs'2728 and thuslock the members 22-23 firmly in close relation. The, springs 18 willoperate to distend the sections 12-13 normally to a greater distancethan the interior. diameter of the casing 10, hence it is necessary to'compress the'casing around the members 12l3, and any suitable means maybe employed to accomplish this result. By this means it will be obviousthat a strong and durable and. yieldable interior structure is producedwhich may be disposed within a tire casing and as a substitute for theordinary inflatable inner tube, andaccomplishes precisely the sameresults as the pneumatic tire withlike. The tire thus constructed willyield to load is applied in pretire, the parts yielding sufficiently toprevent cramping or displacement.

The tire thus constructed may be applied to the ordinary clencherwithout material structural changes. The'rim of the improved wheel'isformed of a main or body portion 31 secured to the thereon and havingan-outturned edge 32 to bear over the portion 24 of the member 22. Aplurality of clip devices .33 bear against the felly at the sideopposite the rolled edge 32 of the rim and are extended to bear over theoutturned portion 25 of the member23 and secured to the felly 34 bybolts 35. The bottoms of the recesses 30 of the locking members 29 arepreferably beveled, and the lugs bent toward .each other after thelocking memhold the locking menrbers.

Having thus described the invention, what is'claimed as new is 1. In avehicle tire, a plurality of outer .operating to out danger of injury-bypuncturing or the rim of a wheel in bers are in place, as illustrated inFig. 5, to

and inner sections conforming to and adapt coupling devices connectedtothe inner faces of the sections and -spaced inwardly from the edges ofthe same, said coupling devices limit the outward movement of the outersections.

2. In a vehicle-tire, and inner sections conforming to and adapted toclosely engage the inner face of the tire casing and entirely inclosedthereby, the

a plurality of outer lengitu dina1 edges of the sections being spacedapart, a plurality of yieldable de: vices bearing against the innerfaces of the sections at their longitudinal centers, eyes attached tothe, inner faces of said sections and spaced inwardly from their edges,and links connected respectively to said eyes. I

3. In a vehicle tire, a plurality of outer andinner sections conformingto and adapted to closely engage the inner face ofa tire casing andentirely inclosed thereby, the longitudinal edges of the -sections.being spaced apart, a plurality of yieldable devices bearing against theinner. faces of the sections at their longitudinal centers, and couplingdevices connected to said sections and spaced inwardly from the edges ofand disposed entirely within the same.

4. The combination with a wheel including the rim and .tire casing, of aplurality of outer and inner rigid sections conforming to and closelyengaging the inner face ward movement ofthe outer sections.

In testimony whereof, we aflix our signatures.

EDWARD W. RUSSEY. [L.s.] HENRY J. COYLE. [as] JAMES R. COYLE. [n.s]

